My Warhammer Collection

In 2023, for my 34th birthday, one friend bought me a box of Warhammer miniatures and paints. He’d heard I like the lore, and that I used to have a few Tyranids. I assembled them, and played my first little game of Warhammer. Three space marines against ten termagants and a swarm of rippers.

Of course, at the time, my boy was four.

I got that set in October that year. One year later, I’d collected and painted about 3 000 points of Tyranids. Now, another year later, I’m up to nearly 6 000.

Hive Fleet Efialtus, purposefully travelling the warp to get more Tzeentchy.

Then I kinda got into Age of Sigmar’s Sylvaneth, and the Aeldari at the same time. And I got an airbrush, which changed the game significantly.

Craftworld Malan;tai na-daan taking revenge on the Tyranids.

The Autumn Court Sylvaneth

Now I’m sitting on a tonne of unpainted Aeldari (This year’s been too busy to paint as much as I’d like), and some other bric a brac, including a magmadroth, and some stormcast eternals and skaven models. It’s time to stop buying and get painting for a bit.

Not pictured: My wife’s raised eyebrow

It’s intended to be a wargame, but I find that I’ve spent far more time painting and looking up how to paint, than I have playing. So here’s a little collection of my proudest pieces:

My treelord

My spearhead terrain

Eldrad with free-handed runes and blue/yellow lines on his clothes

Kitbashed flyrant (tyrant base, carnifex torso, norn assimilator head and hands, carnifex tongue, terminator body)

The process of iterating and improving has been incredibly gratifying. And I’m actively stopping myself from looking at the Necrons, Grey Knights (when they get a refresh), Skaven, and Nighthaunt. At some point the issue stops being money and starts being space.